
December 19, 2017 05:02 IST
The BJP’s lead across 99 assembly constituencies amounts to a total of 29.67 lakh votes over Congress.
Tue, Dec 19, 2017
December 13, 2017 05:06 IST
An analysis of 2012 victory margins of BJP and Congress reveal that the incumbents have a much bigger cushion in the form of higher victory margins than their counterparts in the rival Congress.
Wed, Dec 13, 2017
December 12, 2017 01:11 IST
Alpesh Thakor, who has joined the Congress, doesn’t seem to have swung many supporters to the party even in Radhanpur Assembly constituency of Patan district, where he is contesting.
Tue, Dec 12, 2017
December 07, 2017 02:35 IST
A number of Durbar community members who run autorickshaws from a stand outside an engineering college in Bhavnagar Rural, on the other hand, declare their preference for the Congress.
Thu, Dec 07, 2017
December 05, 2017 04:56 IST
Singh says farmers here are paid about Rs 2,500 a tonne for their standing crop, approximately Rs 350 a tonne for harvesting and another Rs 200 for transportation.
Tue, Dec 05, 2017
December 03, 2017 03:07 IST
The BJP govt was sensitive to the fact that the slump in the commodity prices of groundnut and cotton, as well as the inconvenience caused by the GST, was hurting a large section of the population in Gujarat, Shah said.
Sun, Dec 03, 2017
December 03, 2017 01:10 IST
Amit Shah on Gujarat Assembly elections: 'No matter what some people argue, industrial development has happened because of Vibrant Gujarat. GDP figures bear testimony to industrial development.'
Sun, Dec 03, 2017
November 18, 2017 00:23 IST
The Central government needs to constitute the 15th Finance Commission to recommend the sharing of resources between the Centre and the states as well as among states from the divisible pool for the five years from April 2020 to March 2025
Sat, Nov 18, 2017
November 17, 2017 05:34 IST
Apart from countering Rahul’s GST-related attacks and mocking the Congress’s negotiations with new-age leaders such as Hardik Patel, BJP leaders have made Rahul’s temple the target of a consistent attack in the last one month.
Fri, Nov 17, 2017
October 30, 2017 04:30 IST
For the 1,109 constituencies in West Bengal, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, the party could rope in just 470 full-timers, to work dedicatedly for six months to one year.
Mon, Oct 30, 2017
October 29, 2017 02:31 IST
With recapitalisation bonds adding to government equity, banks will have more equity to dilute and raise more capital.
Sun, Oct 29, 2017
October 28, 2017 04:33 IST
The latest rise in wheat MSP is the highest since the Rs 150-per-quintal hike effected over a decade ago in 2005-06 and 2006-07 during the Congress-led UPA-I government.
Sat, Oct 28, 2017
October 22, 2017 05:28 IST
These fulltimers are separate from the over three lakh volunteers who have devoted 15 days to booth-level work over the last one year.
Sun, Oct 22, 2017
October 11, 2017 04:25 IST
Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Advisor to Ministry of Finance, is slated to present the state of the economy at the first meeting of the EAC-PM chaired by NITI Aayog member Bibek Debroy.
Wed, Oct 11, 2017
October 05, 2017 00:30 IST
The use of cryo-electron microscopy, developed separately by the Laureates, allows biomolecules to be frozen mid-movement, and to be portrayed at atomic resolution. This technology, the Nobel Committee said, ‘has moved biochemistry into a new era’.
Thu, Oct 05, 2017
September 26, 2017 03:54 IST
In fact, references to Modi as Prime Minister are almost three times the number of mentions Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee found in BJP resolutions during the rule of NDA I.
Tue, Sep 26, 2017
September 06, 2017 04:54 IST
The proposal also argues that “re-naming” Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan as National Yuva Kendra Sangathan won’t change the acronym NYKS and so will protect the “brand that it has painstakingly built over last three decades”.
Wed, Sep 06, 2017
September 04, 2017 03:34 IST
Piyush Goyal, who was in charge of Power, has got Railways and will continue to handle the Coal portfolio. Dharmendra Pradhan, who continues to handle Petroleum, has been given additional charge of Skill Development. Nirmala Sitharaman was given Defence.
Mon, Sep 04, 2017
September 04, 2017 03:23 IST
Nirmala Sitharaman became the Defence Minister to join External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on the CCS, apart from the PM.
Mon, Sep 04, 2017
September 04, 2017 00:05 IST
The elevation of Sitharaman, Goyal and Pradhan brings them in the league of other leaders under 60 years of age, such as Nitin Gadkari, J P Nadda and Smriti Irani, in the Union Cabinet and furthers the BJP’s plan of political promotion for its third generation of leaders.
Mon, Sep 04, 2017
September 02, 2017 22:54 IST
JD(U) leader and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar claimed in Patna that there had been “no such talk of the JD(U) joining the Union Cabinet”. “No talks were held on the issue (between the BJP and JD-U),” he said.
Sat, Sep 02, 2017
September 02, 2017 04:17 IST
After Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Bandaru Dattatreya quits; big question: rejig within Cabinet Committee on Security
Sat, Sep 02, 2017
September 01, 2017 05:10 IST
The first indication of the cabinet reshuffle came late afternoon when junior HRD Minister Mahendra Nath Pandey was named as the BJP's Uttar Pradesh unit chief by Shah. Pandey, therefore, is set to exit the Narendra Modi government.
Fri, Sep 01, 2017
August 31, 2017 05:23 IST
Demonetisation: A scrutiny of RBI’s earlier provisional disclosures and the government’s structured public remarks reveal a pattern: aware that much of the money would return, the government and the political establishment kept shifting the goalposts.
Thu, Aug 31, 2017
August 29, 2017 04:03 IST
"Any one party walking out of the proposed alliance due to last-minute hiccup over seat-sharing will be branded as being hands in glove with BJP. That will bring discredit to both the alliance and the party walking out. That’s another reason the contours of alliance need to be fixed.”
Tue, Aug 29, 2017



